Tools, Information or Resources around Socio-Technical Support, Spatial Justice & Design Themes
A collection of tools, information or resources around themes of Spatial Justice or Socio-Technical Design Support. These lists are note exhaustive and open to grow, change and develop over time. If you have any suggestions/inclusions/amendments please contact the JSD_ZA Editors.
South African
- Race, Space & Architecture
- SDI – Know Your City
- Safer Spaces
- Isandla – Resource Page
- Development Action Group (DAG) – Resource Page
- African Center for Cities
- Center for Urbanism & Built Environment Studies(CUBES)
- Plan Act – Publications
- Gauteng City Research Observatory (GCRO)
- 1to1 – Agency of Engagement – Toolkits
- DSD Desis Lab Publications
- South African Cities Network – Publications
Global
- Spatial Agency Database
- Spatial Justice – TU Delft
- Realising Just Cities
- Spatial Justice.org – Tool Box
- Spatial Justice.org – Definitions
- Spatial Justice.org – Resources
- Architecture Sans Frontieres (ASF) Participate Tool Sets
- Community Architects Network – Resources
- Center for Urban Pedagogy
- Lines of Flight
- Public Interest Design Guide Book
- Designing Justice – Tools
- IDEO – Tools
- Indian Institute for Human Settlements – Publications
- Participatory Tool Sets
- The Right to the City Manifesto
- Game Storming Tools
- UN Habitat Toolbox
- Participatory Design in the Age of the Internet
- The Just City Index
- The Incremental City
South African Groups/Individuals working around Socio-Technical Support, Spatial Justice & Design Themes
A South African collection of practitioners, practices, groups or organisations who work around themes of spatial justice or socio-technical design support. These lists are note exhaustive and open to grow, change and develop over time. If you have any suggestions/inclusions/amendments please contact the JSD_ZA Editors.











Design Practitioners/Practices – South African
- Urbanists for Equity
- CounterSpace
- Asiye eTafuleni
- Black Studio
- UBU
- 1to1 – Agency of Engagement
- People Environment Planning (PEP)
- Design Space Africa
- Black Studio
- Architecture for a Change
- Build A Future
- Aformal Terrain
- Urban Works
- Albonico Sack
- Wolff Architects
- Dala
- VPUU
Organisations/Institutes- South African
Global Groups/Individuals working around Socio-Technical Support, Spatial Justice & Design Themes
A global collection of practitioners, practices, groups or organisations who work around themes of spatial justice or socio-technical design support. These lists are note exhaustive and open to grow, change and develop over time. If you have any suggestions/inclusions/amendments please contact the JSD_ZA Editors.







Design Practices – Global
- Cluster Cairo
- Himanshu Parikh Consulting Engineers (HPCE)
- Assemble Studio
- Liz Ogbu
- Teddy Cruz
- The [204] Design Collective
- Nabeel Hamdi
- Julia King
- Designing Justice
- Jan Gehl
- Kounkey Design Initiative
- Public Architecture
- Project H Design
- Icono Classists
- Build Collective
- Detroit Collaborative Design Center
- Anna Herigner
- Doina Petrescu
- Think Public
- Studio BSAR
- Rebuild Foundation
- Back Space
- Chaal Chaal Agency
- Center for Design Innovation
Organisations/Institutes – Global
- Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility
- Design for the Just City
- Jam & Justice
- ASF-UK
- ASF-International
- Architecture in Development
- Association for Community Design
- Black Space
- Indian Institute for Human Settlements
- The 1% Program
- The Curry Stone Foundation
- Decolonising Architecture Art Research
- The Community Architects Network
- The Just Space Alliance
- Just Spatiale | Spatial Justice
- Spatial Justice Network
Schools, Departments or Groups that teach/train around Socio-Technical Support, Spatial Justice & Design Themes
A collection of university departments, schools or training spacaes that teach or train around themes of Spatial Justice or Socio-Technical Design Support. These lists are note exhaustive and open to grow, change and develop over time. If you have any suggestions/inclusions/amendments please contact the JSD_ZA Editors.
South African
- MPhil in Southern Urbanism – African Center for Cities, University of Cape Town
- School of Architecture & Planning – University of the Witwatersrand
- Bertha Centre for Social Innovation – University of Cape Town
- Housing & Urban Environments – Tshwane University of Technology
- Urban Futures Centre – Durban University of Technology
- Critical Practice – Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg
Global
- School of Architecture – University of Sheffield
- Design for Spatial Justice Fellowship – University of Oregon
- Centre for Socially Engaged Design – University of Michigan
- Human Centered Design & Development – Penn State
- Development Planning Unit – University College London
- Department for Urban Studies & Planning – MIT
- Indian Institute for Human Settlements – Bangalore, India
- Hasso Plattner Institute of Design – Stanford University
- Archeworks School – Chicago, U.S.A
- Social Design – The Arts as Urban Innovation – The University of Applied Arts Vienna
- Bachelor of Creative Intelligence & Innovation degree – University of Technology Sydney
- College of design & Social Context – RMIT
- MDes in Social Design – School of Design Ambedkar University
- Diseño Social EN+ – Spain, EU
- Various – University of Westminster
Researchers and Scholars who work around Socio-Technical Support, Spatial Justice & Design Themes
A collection of researchers and scholars who work around themes of Spatial Justice or Socio-Technical Design Support. These lists are note exhaustive and open to grow, change and develop over time. If you have any suggestions/inclusions/amendments please contact the JSD_ZA Editors.
*NOTE: This is a select list, that will grow in the coming weeks.
Books, Articles & Publications around Socio-Technical Support, Spatial Justice & Design Themes
A collection of literature around themes of Spatial Justice or Socio-Technical Design Support. These lists are note exhaustive and open to grow, change and develop over time. If you have any suggestions/inclusions/amendments please contact the JSD_ZA Editors
*NOTE: This is a select list, that will grow in the coming weeks..
South African
Spatial INequality
- Just Urban Imaginaries Colloquium – Proceedings Wits – Wits University
- Urban Conference Report 2018 – South African Cities Network (SACN)
- South African Cities Network (SACN) (2020) State of Cities Reports – SA Cities, Knowledge Hub. Available at: https://www.sacities.net/state-of-cities-reports-2/ (Accessed: 26 August 2020)
- Pieterse, E. (2009) ‘Post-Apartheid Geographies in South Africa: why are urban divides so persistent’, Interdisciplinary Debates on Development and Cultures: Cities in Development – Spaces, Conflicts and Agency
- Pieterse, E. and Owens, K. (2018) ‘Johannesburg : Confronting Spatial Inequality’, World Resources Report
- Louw, I. (2020) ‘Transforming the Spatial Legacies of Colonialism and Apartheid : Participatory Practice and Design Agency in Southern Africa’, (March).
- Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch (2017) Urban governance in post-apartheid cities: Modes of engagement in South Africa’s metropoles, edited by Christoph Haferburg and Marie Huchzermeyer, Journal of Urban Affairs, 39:6, 878-879, DOI: 10.1111/juaf.12289
- Turok, I. (2018) ‘Worlds Apart: Spatial Inequalities in South Africa’, Confronting Inequality: The South African crisis, (February), pp. 129–151. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331024691_Worlds_Apart_Spatial_Inequalities_in_South_Africa.
- Myambo, M. T. et al. (2018) Reversing Urban Inequality in Johannesburg. 1st edn, Reversing Urban Inequality in Johannesburg. 1st edn. Edited by M. T. Myambo. Johannesburg: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429453304.
Spatial Justice
- Adegeye, A. and Coetzee, J. (2019) ‘Exploring the fragments of spatial justice and its relevance for the global south’, Development Southern Africa. Routledge, 36(3), pp. 376–389. doi: 10.1080/0376835X.2018.1495062.defemi Adegeye
- Mabin, A. (2013) ‘Spatial justice as viewed from Gauteng; South Africa: Professionals; planning; possibilities’, in Fol, S., Lehman-Frisch, S., and Morange, M. (eds) Ségrégation et Justice spatiale. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, pp. 335-353. doi: 10.4000/books.pupo.2166.
- Molopi, E. and Ebrahim, T. (2017) Spatial Justice: Accountability Through Collaboration And Confrontation. Johannesburg. Available at: http://www.seri-sa.org/images/SoLG_2017_SERI.pdf (Accessed: 1 October 2020).
- Josh Budlender and Royston, L. (2016) Edged out. Spatial Mismatch and Spatial Justice in South Africa’s main urban areas. Johannesburg. Available at: http://www.seri-sa.org/images/images/SERI_Edged_out_report_Final_high_res.pdf.
- Mills, G. (1989) Space and power in South Africa: The township as a mechanism of control.
SOCIO-TEchnical DESIGN
- Design with the other 90%: Cumulus Johannesburg Conference Proceedings – Cumulus Johannesburg 2014
- Bennett, J. (2018) ‘Design Praxis in a post-Rainbow Nation City: a reflection on the limits & opportunities of spatial design led service learning in South African cities’, in Through Local Eyes: Place-based approaches to emerging architectural, urban design and planning challenges in Africa and the Global South Proceedings. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, ET: Université libre de Bruxelles.]
- Van Niekerk, Willemien & Petzer, Engela & Ndaba, Dumisani & Pieterse, Amy & Rajab, Azra & Kruger, Tinus. (2015). Revising The South African Guidelines for Human settlement Planning and Design (The Red Book).
- Farber, L. et al. (2008) Representation & Spacial Practices in Urban South Africa — VIAD. Edited by Leora Faber. Johannesburg: Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (VIAD).
Global
Spatial INequality
- Berg, A. G. and Ostry, J. D. (2017) ‘Inequality and Unsustainable Growth: Two Sides of the Same Coin?’, IMF Economic Review, 65(4), pp. 792–815. doi: 10.1057/s41308-017-0030-8.
- Dikeç, M. (2009) Space, politics and (in)justice. Available at: https://www.jssj.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/JSSJ1-6en1.pdf (Accessed: 26 August 2020).
- Grant, U. (2010) ‘Spatial inequality and urban poverty traps’, p. 35.
- Harvey, D. (2009) Social Justice and the City. Revised. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press (Geographies of justice and social transformation).
Spatial Justice
- Aitken, S. and Soja, E. W. (1998) ‘Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places’, Geographical Review. doi: 10.2307/215881.
- Bromberg, A., Morrow, G. D. and Pfeiffer, D. (2007) ‘Editorial Note : Why Spatial Justice ?’, Critical Planning Summer, 1.
- Chatterton, P. (2010) ‘Seeking the urban common: Furthering the debate on spatial justice’, City, 14(6), pp. 625–628. doi: 10.1080/13604813.2010.525304.
- Fainstein, S. (2015) ‘Resilience and justice’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. doi: 10.1111/1468-2427.12186.
- Fainstein, S. S. (2016) ‘Spatial Justice and Planning’, Readings in Planning Theory: Fourth Edition, (1980), pp. 258–272. doi: 10.1002/9781119084679.ch13.
- Fainstein, S. S. (2014) ‘The Just City’, International Journal of Urban Sciences. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 18(1), pp. 1–18. doi: 10.1080/12265934.2013.834643.
- Griffin, T. (2015) The Just City Essays: 26 Visions for Urban Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity. Volume 1 Volume 1. Edited by T. Griffin L, A. Cohen, and D. Maddox. New York, New York: The J.Max Bond Center on Design for theJust City.
- Harvey, D. (2003) ‘The right to the city’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 27(4), pp. 939–941. doi: 10.1111/j.0309-1317.2003.00492.x.
- Iveson, K. (2011) ‘Social or spatial justice? Marcuse and Soja on the right to the city’, City. Routledge, 15(2), pp. 250–259. doi: 10.1080/13604813.2011.568723.
- Montealegre, P. (2018) ‘The Architecture of Spatial Justice’, Understanding Sex for Sale, pp. 199–214. doi: 10.4324/9781315107172-12.
- Myers, G. (2019) ‘Seeking Spatial Justice: Review’, International Society for Landscape, Place, & Material Culture, 45(1), pp. 61–63.
- Network, S. J. (2020) Spatial Justice | Understanding the spatial dimensions of justice, WordPress. Available at: https://spatialjustice.blog/ (Accessed: 17 August 2020).
- Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, A. (2015) Spatial Justice: Body, lawscape, atmosphere, Spatial Justice: Body, Lawscape, Atmosphere.
- Simmons, C. (2011) ‘Just Design: Socially Conscious Design for Critical Causes’. HOW Books, p. 208.
- Soja, E. W. (2016) ‘The City and Spatial Justice’, Justice et injustices spatiales, pp. 56–72. doi: 10.4000/books.pupo.415
SOCIO-TEchnical DESIGN
- Anderson, N. M. (2014) ‘Public interest design as praxis’, Journal of Architectural Education, 68(1), pp. 16–27. doi: 10.1080/10464883.2014.864896.
- Awan, N., Schneider, T. and Till, J. (2011) Spatial Agency: other ways of doing architecture, Other Ways of Doing Architecture. Edited by N. Awan, Tatjana Schneider, and J. Till. Abbingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
- Baxter, G. and Sommerville, I. (2011) ‘Socio-technical systems: From design methods to systems engineering’, Interacting with Computers. Elsevier B.V., 23(1), pp. 4–17. doi: 10.1016/j.intcom.2010.07.003.
- Fassi, D., Galluzzo, L. and Rosa, A. De (2018) ‘Service Spatial design: Introducing the fundamentals of a transdisciplinary approach’, in Meroni, A., Medina, A. M. O., and Villari, B. (eds) Service Design Proof of Concept Proceedings of the ServDes.2018 Conference. Linköping, Sweden: Linköping University Electronic Press, pp. 848–861.
- Frediani, A. A. (2016) ‘Re-imagining Participatory Design: Reflecting on the ASF-UK Change by Design Methodology’, MIT: Design Issues, 32(3). doi: 10.1162/DESI.
- Garel, L. and Ramalho, T. (2020) ‘Participatory Incremental Urban Planning: A Toolbox to support local governments in developing countries to implement the New Urban Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals’, pp. 1–100.
- Gehl, J. (2010) City for People. 1st edn. Copenhagen, Denmark: Island Press.
- Hamdi, N. (2013) Small change: About the art of practice and the limits of planning in cities, Small Change: About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities. London ; Sterling, Va: Earthscan. doi: 10.4324/9781849772532.
- Handley, H. A. H. (2013) ‘ScienceDirect Using Architecture Models to Design Adaptive Socio-technical Systems’, Procedia Computer Science, 20, pp. 306–311. doi: 10.1016/j.procs.2013.09.277.
- Hill, J. (2005) Occupying Architecture, Occupying Architecture. doi: 10.4324/9780203983829.
- Keeton, R. and Nijhuis, S. (2019) ‘International Planning Studies Spatial challenges in contemporary African New Towns and potentials for alternative planning strategies. doi: 10.1080/13563475.2019.1660625.
- Kundaeli, F. (2016) ‘Urban Agriculture, Urban Planning and Urban Development in the Contemporary African City: A Case Study of the Lukhanyo Hub Project’, p. 227.
- Landman, K. (2016) ‘The transformation of public space in South Africa and the role of urban design’, Urban Design International. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 21(1), pp. 78–92. doi: 10.1057/udi.2015.24.
- Lowe, R., Chiu, L. F. and Oreszczyn, T. (2017) ‘Building Research & Information Socio-technical case study method in building performance evaluation Socio-technical case study method in building performance evaluation’. doi: 10.1080/09613218.2017.1361275.
- Montealegre, P. (2018) ‘The Architecture of Spatial Justice’, Understanding Sex for Sale, pp. 199–214. doi: 10.4324/9781315107172-12.
- Mumford, E. (1996) Systems Design Ethical Tools for Ethical Change, Systems Design Ethical Tools for Ethical Change. Macmillan Education UK. doi: 10.1007/978-1-349-14199-9.
- Petrescu, D and Trogal, K. (eds) (2017) The social (re)production of architecture: politics, values and actions in contemporary practice. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
- Andrew Rosenburg (2009) Expanding architecture: design as activism, Choice Reviews Online. doi: 10.5860/choice.46-4838.
- Anderson, N. M. (2014) ‘Public interest design as praxis’, Journal of Architectural Education, 68(1), pp. 16–27. doi: 10.1080/10464883.2014.864896.
- Pratt, A. (2019) ‘Formality as exception’, Urban Studies, 56(3), pp. 612–615. doi: 10.1177/0042098018810600.
- Sadik-khan, J., Lydon, M. and Garcia, A. (2015) ‘Short-term Action for Long-term Change’, p. 255.Scacchi, W. (2004) ‘Socio-Technical System Design’, Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, (September 2003), pp. 1–10.
- Scacchi, W. and Bainbridge, W. S. (2004) Socio-Technical Design.
- Schön, D. A. (2012) The Reflective Practitioner, Psychology Applied to Work: An Introduction to Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Tenth Edition Paul. doi: 10.1017/CBO9781107415324.004. Simmons, C. (2011) ‘Just Design: Socially Conscious Design for Critical Causes’. HOW Books, p. 208